{"id":12895,"date":"2009-06-02T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T19:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=12895"},"modified":"2013-11-16T09:29:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T07:29:23","slug":"greek-occupation-of-izmir-and-adjoining-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/06\/02\/greek-occupation-of-izmir-and-adjoining-territories\/","title":{"rendered":"GREEK OCCUPATION OF IZMIR AND ADJOINING TERRITORIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAM PAPERS No. 2\/99 \/.. \/ REPORT OF THE INTER-ALLIED COMMISSION OF INQUIRY<br \/>\n(MAY-SEPTEMBER 1919) | \u00c7AGRI ERHAN | Ankara &#8211; April 1999<br \/>\nReport of the Inter-Allied Commission of Inquiry (May-September 1919)<br \/>\nby the Members of the Commission; Adm. Bristol, the US Delegate &#8211; Gen.<br \/>\nHare, the British Delegate &#8211; Gen. Bunoust, the French Delegate &#8211; Gen.<br \/>\nDall&#8217;Olio, the Italian Delegate. The statements in defense of the<br \/>\nGreek government presented by Col. Mazarakis.<\/p>\n<p><a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the first day of the Greek occupation was not only<br \/>\nconsisted of robbery, burglary and plunder. According to Allied<br \/>\nsources, the Greek occupation forces and civilian<br \/>\nGreeks killed 300 to 400 Turks on 15 May 1919. More than 2,500 Turks,<br \/>\nsome even as young as 14 years of age, were subjected to arbitrary<br \/>\ndetention. The Turkish population was subjected<br \/>\nrepeatedly to rape, beating, insults and torture.&#8221; (40)<\/p>\n<p>(40) Documents on British Foreign Policy, (ed. E.L. Woodward and Rohan<br \/>\nButler), First Series, vol. I, (London: His Majesty&#8217;s Stationery<br \/>\nOffice, 1947), p. 241.<\/p>\n<p>[    <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com.tr\/group\/turkish-forum-advisory-board\/attach\/1769759534\/GREEKOCCUPATIONOFIZMIR.pdf?hl=tr&amp;part=2&amp;view=1\">GREEKOCCUPATIONOFIZMIR.pdf<\/span> 520K ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAM PAPERS No. 2\/99 \/.. \/ REPORT OF THE INTER-ALLIED COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (MAY-SEPTEMBER 1919) | \u00c7AGRI ERHAN | Ankara &#8211; April 1999 Report of the Inter-Allied Commission of Inquiry (May-September 1919) by the Members of the Commission; Adm. Bristol, the US Delegate &#8211; Gen. Hare, the British Delegate &#8211; Gen. Bunoust, the French Delegate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":34116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}